You can create dramatic pendants with polymer clay.
Polymer clay is available in a wide variety of colors, including metallic tones that can be used to create attractive faux gold or silver pendants. Mixing two contrasting colors of clay to create a marbleized effect will enhance the faux metallic effect. Creating these pendants would be a great jewelry-making craft project for a sleepover birthday party or summer camp session. The finished pendants can be strung from fine metal chains, cording or thin satin ribbon.
Instructions
1. Roll pencil-sized snakes of the gold and black polymer clay with your hands. Place the snakes next to each other on a flat surface and fold the snakes in half.
2. Roll the snakes to a 1/4-inch flat sheet with the rolling pin. Fold the sheet in half and roll again. Repeat, creating a marbleized effect in the clay.
3. Roll the marbleized clay into a marble sized ball. Flatten the ball slightly with your hand to make the pendant. Pierce the pendant all the way through the center with the toothpick.
4. Place the pendant on a cookie sheet and bake it in a 175 degree Fahrenheit oven for 20 minutes. Let the pendant cool for 10 minutes and remove it from the cookie sheet.
5. Push the gold headpin through the hole in the pendant. Cut the headpin with the wire cutters 1/2-inch from the top of the pendant.
6. Twist the protruding 1/2-inch of the headpin into a circle with the tip of the needle nose pliers. The wire circle will be used to string the pendant on a cord, chain or ribbon.
